EP1865337A1 - Spread spectrum type radar device - Google Patents

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EP1865337A1
EP1865337A1 EP20060730497 EP06730497A EP1865337A1 EP 1865337 A1 EP1865337 A1 EP 1865337A1 EP 20060730497 EP20060730497 EP 20060730497 EP 06730497 A EP06730497 A EP 06730497A EP 1865337 A1 EP1865337 A1 EP 1865337A1
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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  • the present invention relates to a radar apparatus using a spread spectrum method, and particularly to a spread spectrum radar apparatus which is inexpensive, has a wide detection range, and provides high performance.
  • on-vehicle radar apparatuses a radar apparatus using a spread spectrum method (hereinafter referred to as a spread spectrum radar apparatus) and the like has been suggested (for example, refer to Patent Reference 1).
  • On-vehicle radar apparatuses are used to detect a preceding vehicle, a rear obstacle, and the like, for the purpose of safety improvement such as collision avoidance and enhancement of the driving convenience represented by reverse driving support.
  • safety improvement such as collision avoidance and enhancement of the driving convenience represented by reverse driving support.
  • it is necessary to suppress an effect of an undesired radio wave generated from other radar apparatuses of the same type installed in vehicles other than the own vehicle, such as an effect of interference by an electromagnetic wave.
  • a transmission radio wave is modulated in a spread spectrum radar apparatus using a PN code for spectrum spreading, a signal caused by a radio wave which is modulated in a different code and a signal outputted from a radar apparatus using another modulation method which does not use code are suppressed within a receiver.
  • the transmission radio wave is frequency-spread using the PN code, it is possible to reduce the electric power on a frequency unit basis and thus to reduce the effect on other wireless systems. It is also possible to freely set a relationship between distance resolution and a maximum detectable range by adjusting a chip rate and a code cycle of the PN code. The peak power never becomes large since continuous transmission of a radio wave is possible. Note that an undesired radio wave mixed into a transmission radio wave is spread over a wide band in a frequency domain even when a despreading process is performed, and unnecessary noise and an interference signal are suppressed using a filter for a narrow band.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatuses are classified into a heterodyne method type and a homodyne method type depending on the configuration of the receiver.
  • the heterodyne method is a method of receiving a signal that converts a frequency into an intermediate frequency by mixing (multiplying) a reception signal and a signal having a frequency different from a frequency of the corresponding transmission signal by a predetermined frequency, and that performs signal processing, such as amplification and wave detection.
  • the homodyne method is a method of receiving a signal that directly obtains a baseband signal by mixing (multiplying) a reception signal and a signal having the same frequency as that of the transmission signal.
  • a frequency stabilizer using a phase-locked loop is necessary in each reception side and transmission side of the spread spectrum radar apparatus using a heterodyne method, and thus, there is a problem that it is difficult to lower the price of the apparatus. This is because it is necessary to control, in high precision, an oscillation frequency of local oscillators at the reception side and transmission side and to sufficiently stabilize, according to a pass band of a filter, an intermediate frequency which is a frequency difference between the reception side and transmission side.
  • a problem to be described hereinafter which is unique to the homodyne method does not occur in a spread spectrum radar apparatus using the heterodyne method.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus using the homodyne method has problems, such as characteristic variations in semiconductor devices, direct current offsets caused by the variation in the ambient temperature, and thus, it is necessary to install a direct current amplifier. Since the detection range of the radar apparatus is set wide, it becomes a substantial obstacle when the dynamic range of the receiver is increased. By using a local oscillator which is common in the reception and transmission sides, it is possible to ease a degree of frequency stability required in an oscillator. This is possible because an output signal obtained by wave detection from the receiver includes a direct current component.
  • the method of embedding data code in the PN code has been conceived (for example, refer to Patent Reference 2).
  • the method has a characteristic in that the problem of the direct current offset does not occur in a receiver by using a local oscillator which is common in the reception and transmission sides.
  • the data code is embedded in the PN code, and spreading modulation is performed on a carrier signal using the PN code in which the data code has been embedded, there is a problem in that large numbers of spurious signals, which have an adverse effect on the receiving performance, frequently occur in a modulation signal obtained by performing the spreading modulation.
  • the data code includes large numbers of basic frequencies and the harmonics. Therefore, compared to the cases where spreading modulation is performed on a carrier signal using only the PN code, large numbers of frequency components are included in a modulation signal, which is equivalent to the result obtained by multiplying the number of the harmonics included in the PN code and the number of the harmonics included in the data code. At this time, modulation is performed on each of the frequency components of the PN code itself, using the data code including the large numbers of harmonics components.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a spread spectrum radar apparatus: which has a circuit configuration including a local oscillator used common in a reception and a transmission sides, but not requiring a direct current amplifier; which suppresses the occurrence of a spurious signal that impedes a receiving operation; and which is inexpensive, has a wide detection range, and provides high performance.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus includes: (a) a transmission circuit which generates a spread signal that is a spectrum-spread signal, using a first oscillator signal, a second oscillator signal, and a first pseudo-noise code, and which emits the spread signal as a detection radio wave; and (b) a reception circuit which receives, as a reception signal, the detection radio wave reflected from an object, and which generates an intermediate frequency signal by despreading the reception signal based on the first oscillator signal and a second pseudo-noise code obtained by delaying the first pseudo-noise code.
  • the present invention can be implemented not only as a spread spectrum radar apparatus but also as a detection method using a spectrum-spread radio wave (hereinafter, referred to as spread spectrum detection method).
  • a spread spectrum radar apparatus which is configured of a circuit in which a local oscillator which is common in the reception and transmission sides is used but a direct current amplifier is not required, and which is inexpensive, has a wide detection range, and provides high performance.
  • an exclusive OR is calculated between the data supplied from a data source (bits) and the transmission PN code in the transmission side. Then, since the code obtained from the exclusive OR is modulated using an oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator, large numbers of spectrum caused by the bits appear in each of the frequencies of spectrum for the signal obtained by the modulation. With this, the number of spectrums becomes large, inter-modulation occurs between those spectrums due to the non-linearity caused by a balanced modulator, an amplifier, and the like. With this, the despread processing in the receiving side deteriorates a correlation characteristic with the delaying PN code, and a ratio of noise to peak in output of the reception signal becomes lower. In other words, such case is equivalent to a case where an object having high reflectivity properties is masked by an object having low reflectivity properties. Thus, the object detection capability of the spread spectrum radar apparatus decreases.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus uses a local oscillator, instead of the data source. Since the number of spectrums is less in a signal emitted from a transmission unit as a detection radio wave, such spectrums are less subject to the inter-modulation. Thus, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of spurious signals that impedes a receiving operation.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus of the present embodiment includes the features (a) to (j) as shown below.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus includes: (a1) a transmission circuit which generates a spread signal that is a spectrum-spread signal, using a first oscillator signal, a second oscillator signal, and a first pseudo-noise code, and which emits the spread signal as a detection radio wave; and (a2) a reception circuit which receives, as a reception signal, the detection radio wave reflected from an object, and which generates an intermediate frequency signal by despreading the reception signal based on the first oscillator signal and a second pseudo-noise code obtained by delaying the first pseudo-noise code.
  • the reception circuit further includes: (b1) a balanced modulator which generates the modulation signal by modulating a phase of the reception signal based on the second pseudo-noise code; and (b2) a quadrature demodulator which outputs, as the intermediate frequency signal, an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal which are included in the modulation signal.
  • the quadrature demodulator further includes: (c1) a phase shifter which generates a third oscillator signal in which a shift amount with respect to the first oscillator signal is different by 90 degrees; (c2) a first balanced modulator which generates the in-phase signal by mixing the modulation signal and the first oscillator signal; (c3) a second balanced modulator which generates the quadrature signal by mixing the modulation signal and the third oscillator signal.
  • the reception circuit includes: (d1) a first band-pass filter to which the in-phase signal is inputted from the quadrature demodulator, and which allows a band from among frequency components of the in-phase signal to pass, the band having a clock frequency of the second oscillator signal as a center frequency; (d2) a second band-pass filter to which the quadrature signal is inputted from the quadrature demodulator, and which allows a band from among frequency components of the quadrature signal to pass, the band having the clock frequency of the second oscillator signal as the center frequency; (d3) a first amplifier which outputs a signal intensity and a signal amplified by limiting amplitude of a signal which has passed the first band-pass filter, the signal intensity being proportional to a logarithm of intensity of the signal which has passed the first band-pass filter; and (d4) a second amplifier which outputs a signal intensity and a signal amplified by limiting amplitude of a signal which has passed the second band-pass filter, the signal
  • the transmission circuit generates an intermediate signal by mixing the first oscillator signal and the second oscillator signal, and generates the spread signal by modulating a phase of the intermediate signal based on the first pseudo-noise code.
  • the transmission circuit further includes: (f1) a first local oscillator which generates the first oscillator signal; (f2) a second local oscillator which generates the second oscillator signal; (f3) a first balanced modulator which generates the intermediate signal by mixing the first oscillator signal and the second oscillator signal; and (f4) a second balanced modulator which generates the spread signal by modulating a phase of the intermediate signal based on the first pseudo-noise code.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus further includes a signal processing circuit which calculates intensity of the reception signal based on the quadrature signal and the in-phase signal, checks the intensity with a reference value, and judges whether or not the object is present.
  • the signal processing circuit further identifies time for which the first pseudo-noise code is delayed so as to generate the second pseudo-noise code, and calculates a distance to the object from the identified time, based on the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal.
  • the signal processing circuit further calculates a phase of the reception signal based on the second oscillator signal, the in-phase signal, and the quadrature signal, and calculates a relative velocity for the object based on time variations in the phase.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus further includes: (j1) a first pseudo-noise code generating circuit which generates an M sequence code as the first pseudo-noise code; and (j2) a second pseudo-noise code generating circuit which generates the M sequence code as the second pseudo-noise code.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus generates an intermediate signal by mixing the first oscillator signal and the second oscillator signal, generates the spread signal by modulating a phase of the intermediate signal based on the transmission PN code, and emits the spread signal as a detection radio wave. Then, the spread spectrum radar apparatus receives the detection radio wave reflected from an object, generates the modulation signal by modulating a phase of the reception signal based on the reception PN code, generates the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal which are included in the modulation signal based on the modulation signal and the first oscillator signal, and detects the object based on the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatuses are installed respectively in a front and a tail of the vehicle 11.
  • Each of the apparatus emits a detection radio wave to an object, such as a preceding vehicle 12 and a obstacle 13, receives the detection radio wave reflected from the object, and calculates the presence or absence of the obstacle, a distance to the obstacle, and a relative velocity for the obstacle based on the received detection radio wave.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 100 includes a transmission unit 101, a reception unit 102, a transmission PN code generating unit 103, a reception PN code generating unit 104, a signal processing unit 105, a control unit 106, and the like.
  • the transmission unit 101 emits a detection radio wave to an object, such as a preceding vehicle and an obstacle.
  • the reception unit 102 receives a detection radio wave reflected from the object.
  • the transmission PN code generating unit 103 generates a PN code based on a timing signal supplied from the control unit 106, and supplies the generated PN code to the transmission unit 101.
  • the reception PN code generating unit 104 generates a PN code obtained by delaying the PN code generated by the transmission PN code generating unit 103, based on a timing signal supplied from the control unit 106, and supplies the generated PN code to the reception unit 102.
  • the signal processing unit 105 calculates the presence or absence of an obstacle, a distance to the obstacle, and a relative velocity for the obstacle, based on: the code delay time ⁇ of the reception PN code generating unit 104 to the transmission PN code generating unit 103; a reference signal supplied from the transmission unit 101; and a signal outputted from the reception unit 102.
  • the control unit 106 supplies a timing signal to the transmission PN code generating unit 103 and the reception PN code generating unit 104.
  • the control unit 106 supplies the timing signal at 2.5 Gbps.
  • PN code is a binary pseudo-noise signal.
  • an M sequence code which is well known as a PN code, is used here.
  • the transmission PN code generating unit 103 and the reception PN code generating unit 104 respectively include eleven-stage non-linear feedback shift registers, generates a PN code with a repetition cycle 2047, and supplies the PN code.
  • the transmission unit 101 further includes a local oscillator 111, a local oscillator 112, a balanced modulator 113, a balanced modulator 114, a band-pass filter 115, an attenuator 116, a transmission antenna 117, and the like.
  • the local oscillator 111 generates an oscillator signal in a microwave band or a millimeter waveband as a carrier wave, and supplies the generated signal to the balanced modulator 113 and the reception unit 102.
  • the local oscillator 111 generates the 24 GHz oscillator signal as an example herein.
  • the local oscillator 112 generates a reference signal, and supplies the generated reference signal to the balanced modulator 113 and the signal processing unit 105.
  • the local oscillator 112 generates a 455 kHz reference signal as an example herein.
  • the clock frequency of the reference signal is one-integer-th of the frequency of the cycle of the PN code supplied from the transmission PN code generating unit 103 in order to improve the correlation characteristic of the reception signal.
  • the balanced modulator 113 mixes (multiplies) the oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator 111 and the reference signal supplied from the local oscillator 112, and outputs the modulation signal shown in FIG. 4A.
  • the primary components of the outputted signal includes a dual-frequency signal having f c - f 1 frequency and having f c + f 1 frequency.
  • the balanced modulator 114 modulates a phase of the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 113 based on the PN code supplied from the transmission PN code generating unit 103, and outputs the modulation signal shown in FIG. 4B.
  • the balanced modulator 114 performs spreading processing on the signal outputted from the transmission PN code generating unit 113 using the PN code supplied from the transmission PN code generating unit 103. More specifically, the balanced modulator 114 inverts the phase of the signal upconverted by the balanced modulator 113 based on the PN code supplied from the transmission PN code generating unit 103. Then, the balanced modulator 114 modulates the phase of the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 113, as with the BPSK modulator, and outputs the signal which is spectrum spread over a wide band.
  • the band-pass filter 115 is inserted as necessary in order to remove unnecessary components from the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 114, in other words, the signal in which spread processing has been performed.
  • the attenuator 116 is inserted as necessary when transmission antenna power is regulated in accordance with radio laws and regulations.
  • the transmission antenna 117 is an antenna which emits, as a detection radio wave, the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 114 via the band-pass filter 115, the attenuator 116, and the like.
  • the reception unit 102 further includes a reception antenna 121, a band-pass filter 122, a low noise amplifier 123, a balanced modulator 124, a quadrature demodulator 125, band-pass filters 126 and 128, amplifiers 127 and 129, and the like.
  • the reception antenna 121 is an antenna which receives a detection radio wave reflected from an object as a reception signal (for example, see FIG. 4C).
  • the band-pass filter 122 is inserted as necessary in order to remove an interference signal and noise having frequency components that do not contribute to a radar operation from among reception signals received via the reception antenna 121.
  • the band-pass filter 122 is inserted between the reception antenna 121 and the low noise amplifier 123.
  • the low noise amplifier 123 is inserted as necessary in order to maintain a preferable ratio between a signal and noise.
  • the low noise amplifier 123 is inserted between the band-pass filter 122 and the balanced modulator 124.
  • the balanced modulator 124 modulates a phase of the signal received via the reception antenna 121 and outputted via the band-pass filter 122, the low noise amplifier 123 and the like, based on the PN code supplied from the reception PN code generating unit 104, and outputs the modulation signal shown in FIG. 4D.
  • the intensity of the signal component at the frequency f c - f 1 and the signal component having the f c + f 1 frequency are respectively attenuated by the amount determined by the autocorrelation characteristic of the PN code.
  • the control unit 106 can monitor the output of the balanced modulator 124 while sequentially varying the delay time of the PN code and calculate the presence or absence of an obstacle and a distance to the obstacle based on the delay time when the signal having the f c - f 1 frequency and the signal having the f c + f 1 frequency appear.
  • the frequency f p of the PN code is larger than the clock frequency f 1 of the reference signal. This indicates that when the frequency f p of the PN code is smaller than the clock frequency f 1 of the reference signal, a modulation signal having the frequency f c of the oscillator signal as the center value is divided into two. With this, in order to conform to requirements of laws and regulations regarding emission of electromagnetic waves and the like, it is normally necessary to provide a band-pass filter that selects either of the two modulation signals. As a result, half of electric power of such modulation signal is lost.
  • the quadrature demodulator 125 uses the signal having the frequency f c supplied from the transmission unit 101, and converts, into an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal which respectively have intermediate frequencies, the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 124, in other words, the signal on which despread processing has been performed.
  • the band-pass filters 126 and 128 removes an unnecessary interference signal, and only allows the frequency component of f 1 ⁇ f d to pass.
  • the frequency component which is necessary as an output signal of the quadrature demodulator 125 is a frequency of f 1 ⁇ f d shifted from f 1 of the local oscillator 112 by the Doppler shift f d corresponding to a relative velocity between the detection target and the spread spectrum radar apparatus.
  • the amplifier 127 amplifies the signal outputted from the band-pass filter 126 and outputs the amplified signal to the signal processing unit 105.
  • the amplifier 129 amplifies the signal outputted from the band-pass filter 128 and outputs the amplified signal to the signal processing unit 105.
  • a signal outputted from the balanced modulator 124 is a signal having a very wide dynamic range depending on a reflectivity coefficient of an obstacle and the distance to the obstacle.
  • a dynamic range of approximately 100 dB is necessary in view of reception electric power: used when a target with a reflection efficiency of approximately -5dBsm as a radar cross-sectional area, such as a bicycle at a distance of 20 meters is detected; and used when transmission power is inputted in a receiver without any loss with the reflection from an object fairly at point-blank range or from an object with a large radio wave reflection efficiency, such as a metal plate.
  • the quadrature demodulator 125 further includes a phase shifter 125a and balanced modulators 125b and 125c.
  • the local oscillator 111 supplies a signal having the frequency f c to the phase shifter 125a, and the phase shifter 125a outputs a signal having a phase which is different from the phase of the supplied signal by 90 degrees.
  • the balanced modulator 125b mixes (multiplies) the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 124 and the signal having the frequency f c which is supplied from the local oscillator 111, and outputs the mixed signal.
  • the balanced modulator 125c mixes (multiplies) the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 124 and the signal outputted from the phase shifter 125a, and outputs the mixed signal.
  • the output signal of the balanced modulator 124 is R(t)
  • the output signal of the balanced modulator 125b is I(t)
  • the output signal of the balanced modulator 125c is Q(t).
  • R(t) is a signal which is obtained by mixing the oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator 111 and the reference signal supplied from the local oscillator 112 and despreading the resulting signal, and which is outputted from the balanced modulator 113 of the transmission unit
  • the signal is a signal obtained by delaying the output signal of the balanced modulator 113 by the time ⁇ during the process when the resulting signal is reconstructed by despreading the signal after a round-trip transmission between the spread spectrum radar apparatus and the obstacle.
  • the aforementioned signals are expressed by the following Expressions 1 to 3.
  • ⁇ c denotes a phase of a carrier wave
  • ⁇ 1 denotes a phase of a reference signal
  • ⁇ 1 -2 ⁇ f 1 ⁇ denotes phase rotation of the carrier wave by the transmission delay.
  • I'(t) is the signal which is outputted via the band-pass filter 116 from among frequency components of I(t)
  • Q'(t) is the signal which is outputted via the band-pass filter 118 from among frequency components of Q(t).
  • the aforementioned signals are expressed by the following Expressions (4) to (5).
  • I ⁇ t A 2 ⁇ cos ⁇ c + ⁇ ⁇ c ⁇ cos 2 ⁇ ⁇ f 1 ⁇ t + ⁇ 1 + ⁇ ⁇ 1
  • the signal intensity of I'(t) which is expressed by Expression 4 and the signal intensity of Q'(t) which is expressed by Expression 5 are AI and AQ respectively
  • AI is expressed by Expression 6
  • AQ is expressed by Expression 7.
  • the signal intensity A of the reception signal can be calculated as in Expression 8.
  • the phase ⁇ c + ⁇ c can be obtained by Expressions 9 and 10, using I" expressed by Expression 11 and Q" expressed by Expression 12.
  • Expression 11 is an expression that obtains, as a direct current component, a result by multiplying a signal obtained by limiting I'(t) and a reference signal
  • Expression 12 is an expression that obtains, as a direct current component, a result by multiplying a signal obtained by limiting amplitude of Q'(t) and the reference signal.
  • AI A 2 ⁇ cos ⁇ c + ⁇ ⁇ c
  • I " cos ⁇ ⁇ 1 ⁇ cos ⁇ c + ⁇ ⁇ c
  • the large antenna power may be obtained using a power amplifier instead of the attenuator 116.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus of the present invention is superior in a signal interference property between a transmitter and a receiver, compared to the conventional radar apparatus which uses, as a transmission signal, a signal obtained by spread-modulating a carrier signal having a single frequency using the code obtained by embedding data code in the PN code.
  • a spectrum-spread modulation signal includes large numbers of frequency components, and it is conceivable that these frequency components are leaked from the transmitter to the receiver and interferes with a reception signal within the receiver.
  • the primary frequency components of the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 113 is a dual-frequency signal having the f c - f 1 frequency and having the f c + f 1 frequency within a transmitter.
  • the number of the frequency components included in the spectrum spread signal outputted from the balanced modulator 114 is limited to double the number of the frequency components included in the signal in which the carrier signal having a single frequency is frequency-spread using the PN code.
  • the frequency components are primarily dual-frequency signals, and distributed within a side band generated by modulating a signal using the frequency components included in the PN code itself.
  • the code rate of the PN code is Rc
  • the primary frequency components remain within the range of f c ⁇ (R c + f 1 ), and it is possible to make an intermediate frequency inside the receiver sufficiently lower than the frequency given in f c - (R c + f 1 ). Consequently, it is possible to suppress the signal interference.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 100 can ease the frequency stability required in an oscillator by generating, using a common local oscillator, a carrier wave supplied to the quadrature demodulator 125 and a carrier wave to be transmitted as a detection radio wave.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 100 can omit a function that stabilizes a frequency in high precision, such as a phase-locked loop.
  • the signals outputted from the band-pass filters 115 and 116 are expressed by Expressions 4 and 5, and do not include a direct current component. Therefore, it is possible to omit the direct current amplifier.
  • the signal does not include a direct current component, it is possible to amplify the signal without a direct current amplifier while keeping the relatively wide dynamic range, without any effect of the direct current offset.
  • a radar apparatus which has the configuration of a circuit in which a local oscillator is used in common at a reception and a transmission sides and does not require a phase-locked loop, a direct current amplifier, and the like; and which is inexpensive, has the high performance and a wide detection range.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus of the present embodiment includes the features (a) and (b) as shown below.
  • the quadrature demodulator further includes: (a1) a phase shifter which alternately outputs the first oscillator signal and a third oscillator signal in which a shift amount with respect to the first oscillator signal is different by 90 degrees; and (a2) a balanced modulator which alternately generates the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal by mixing the modulation signal and the signal outputted from the phase shifter.
  • the reception circuit further includes: (b1) a band-pass filter to which the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal are alternately inputted from the quadrature demodulator, and which allows a band from among frequency components of the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal, the band having a clock frequency of the second oscillator signal as a center frequency; and (b2) an amplifier which outputs a signal intensity and a signal amplified by limiting amplitude of a signal which has passed the band-pass filter, the signal intensity being proportional to a logarithm of intensity of the signal which has passed the band-pass filter.
  • either an in-phase signal or a quadrature signal is alternately switched based on a phase amount switching signal supplied from a controller to the quadrature demodulator, and either of the signals is outputted from the quadrature demodulator.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus according to the present embodiment is described. Note that the description of the constituent units of the second embodiment which are identical to the constituent units of the first embodiment is omitted using the same unit numbers.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 200 differs from the spread spectrum radar apparatus 100 of the first embodiment (for example, refer to FIG. 2) in the following points (1) to (3).
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 200 includes a reception unit 202 instead of the reception unit 102.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 200 includes a signal processing unit 205 instead of the signal processing unit 105.
  • the signal processing unit 205 calculates the presence or absence of an obstacle, a distance to the obstacle, and a relative velocity for the obstacle, based on: the delay time ⁇ of the reception PN code generating unit 104 to the transmission PN code generating unit 103; and an inputted signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 200 also includes a control unit 206 instead of the control unit 106.
  • the control unit 206 supplies, to the quadrature demodulator 225 and the signal processing unit 205, the signal outputted from the quadrature demodulator 225 and the control signal which switches between a signal I'(t) and a signal Q'(t) respectively.
  • phase amount switching signal a control signal that shifts a phase amount
  • the reception unit 202 differs from the reception unit 102 in the following points (1) to (3).
  • the reception unit 202 includes a quadrature demodulator 225 instead of the quadrature demodulator 125.
  • the quadrature demodulator 225 further includes a phase shifter 225a and a balanced modulator 225b.
  • the phase shifter 225a has a function of shifting a phase amount. More specifically, the phase shifter 225a switches a phase of the signal having the oscillation frequency f c which is supplied from the transmission unit 101, to either an in-phase signal or a quadrature signal, and outputs either of the signals, based on the phase amount switching signal supplied from the control unit 206.
  • the balanced modulator 225b mixes (multiplies) the signal outputted from the phase shifter 225a and the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 124, in other words, the signal which has been despread, and outputs the mixed signal.
  • the signal in which either an in-phase or a quadrature phase is synchronously detected is outputted based on the phase amount switching signal supplied from the control unit 206 to the phase shifter 225a. More specifically, when the in-phase signal is outputted from the phase shifter 225a, a signal expressed by Expression 2 is outputted.
  • the signal expressed by Expression 3 is outputted.
  • the reception unit 202 includes a band-pass filter 226 instead of the band-pass filters 126 and 128.
  • the band-pass filter 226 removes an unnecessary interference signal, and only allows the frequency component of f 1 ⁇ f d to pass.
  • the reception unit 202 includes an amplifier 227 instead of amplifiers 127 and 129.
  • the amplifier 227 amplifies the signal outputted from the band-pass filter 226 and outputs the amplified signal to the signal processing unit 205.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus needs double the time required in the spread spectrum radar apparatus according to the first embodiment, when the signal quality equivalent to the signal quality in the first embodiment is to be obtained so as to alternately switch between an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal. Furthermore, there are cases where it is not possible to obtain an accurate signal because a position of an obstacle, which moves at a high velocity, moves during a period when a signal alternately switches between an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal. However, when such case is acceptable, for example, when the apparatus is used for an easy application, it is possible to unify communication paths of signals between a quadrature demodulator and a signal processor into a single path, and to simplify the configuration of the apparatus.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus of the present embodiment includes a feature (a) as shown below.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus further includes a random signal generating circuit which generates a random signal that randomly changes a frequency of the first oscillator signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus according to the present embodiment is described. Note that the description of the constituent units of the third embodiment which are identical to the constituent units of the first embodiment is omitted using the same unit numbers.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 300 differs from the spread spectrum radar apparatus 100 of the first embodiment (for example, refer to FIG. 3) in the following points (1) and (2).
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 300 includes a transmission unit 301 instead of the transmission unit 101.
  • the transmission unit 301 includes a local oscillator 311 instead of the local oscillator 111.
  • the local oscillator 311 generates an oscillator signal by discretely or continuously varying the frequency according to the random signal supplied from a random signal generating unit 307.
  • the frequency of an oscillator signal is varied based on the pass band of the band-pass filters 126 and 128.
  • the frequency of the oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator 311 is f 1 .
  • the frequency of the oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator 311 is f 1 ⁇ f r .
  • the displacement ⁇ f r is the frequency which varies according to the random signal.
  • the clock frequency of the reference signal supplied from the local oscillator 112 is f 2 . It is assumed that the upper limit of the pass band of the band-pass filters 126 and 128 is f bh and the lower limit is f bl .
  • the displacement ⁇ f r varies within a range in which conditions “ ⁇ f r >f bh -f 2 " and " ⁇ f r >f 2 -f bl " are satisfied.
  • the displacement ⁇ f r varies within a range in which conditions " ⁇ f r >f bh -f 2 +f d " and " ⁇ f r >f 2 -f bl +f d " are satisfied.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 300 newly includes a random signal generating unit 307.
  • the random signal generating unit 307 generates a random signal and supplies the generated random signal to the local oscillator 311.
  • a desirable reflected wave is received via the reception antenna 121; a modulation signal ranging between the frequency f1 + f2 and the frequency f1- f2 is outputted from the balanced modulator 124; and when an interfering wave is received, an interfering signal of the frequency f1 + f2 is leaked from the balanced modulator 124.
  • the frequency of the modulation signal is fixed without the random signal generating unit 307, it is not possible to distinguish between an interfering signal and a modulation signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus can distinguish between an interfering signal and a modulation signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 300 can distinguish between a interfering signal leaked from the balanced modulator 124 due to the interfering wave and a modulation signal which is reflected from a desirable reflected wave and outputted from the balanced modulator 124, even when the signals have a similar frequency.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus of the present embodiment includes the features (a) and (b) as shown below.
  • a spread spectrum radar apparatus which: modulates a first oscillator signal with a first pseudo-noise code; emits, as a detection radio wave, a spread signal that is a spectrum-spread signal; receives, as a reception signal, the detection radio wave reflected from an object; and generates a demodulation signal by despreading the reception signal based on a second pseudo-noise code and the first oscillator signal
  • the apparatus includes: (a1) a repetition code generating circuit which generates a repetition code by generating a code using a predetermined frequency; and (a2) an exclusive OR operation circuit which outputs, as the second pseudo-noise code, a result obtained by performing an exclusive OR operation between the repetition code and a pseudo-noise code obtained by delaying the first pseudo-noise code.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus according to the present embodiment is described. Note that the description of the constituent units of the fourth embodiment which are identical to the constituent units of the first embodiment is omitted using the same unit numbers.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 400a differs from the spread spectrum radar apparatus 100 of the first embodiment (for example, refer to FIG. 3) in the following points (1) to (3).
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 400a includes a transmission unit 401a instead of the transmission unit 101.
  • the transmission unit 401a includes a balanced modulator 412a and an amplifier 413a instead of the local oscillator 112, the balanced modulator 113, and the balanced modulator 114.
  • the balanced modulator 412a modulates a phase of the oscillator signal (for example, 24 GHz) supplied from the local oscillator 111 based on the PN code supplied from the transmission PN code generating unit 103, and outputs the resulting modulation signal.
  • the amplifier 413a amplifies the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 412a, and outputs the amplified signal. Then, the signal outputted from the amplifier 413a is emitted, as a detection radio wave, via the band-pass filter 115, the attenuator 116, and the transmission antenna 117.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 400a newly includes a repetition code generator 408a.
  • the repetition code generator 408a generates a repetition code such as "1,0,1,0, ", and supplies the repetition code to an exclusive OR operator 409a.
  • the repetition code is generated using 455 kHz.
  • a half of a clock frequency of the repetition code is one-integer-th of a frequency of a cycle of the first pseudo-noise code in order to improve the correlation characteristic of the reception signal.
  • the repetition code is "1,0,1,0, "
  • the half of the clock frequency indicates a frequency of a square wave itself of the repetition code.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 400a newly includes an exclusive OR operator 409a.
  • the exclusive OR operator 409a calculates an exclusive OR between the PN code supplied from the reception PN code generating unit 104, and the repetition code supplied from the repetition code generator 408a, and outputs the resulting code to the balanced modulator 124 of the reception unit 102.
  • the repetition code generator 408a and the exclusive OR operator 409a are integrated in a semiconductor integrated circuit as an example here. Even when the code outputted from the exclusive OR operator 409a is outputted outside the semiconductor integrated circuit, the repetition code supplied from the repetition code generator 408a is not outputted. With this, as long as the repetition code is not leaked onto a printed circuit board, it is possible to prevent an effect on a very weak signal which has passed the quadrature demodulator 125, using a signal leaked from the repetition code generator 408a when the frequency or the harmonics of the repetition code is selected by the band-pass filters 126 and 128 and the signal is amplified by the amplifiers 127 and 129.
  • the repetition code generator 408b and the exclusive OR operator 409b are integrated in a semiconductor integrated circuit and included in the transmission side.
  • the transmission unit 401b includes a balanced modulator 412b instead of the local oscillator 112, the balanced modulator 113, and the balanced modulator 114.
  • the balanced modulator 412b modulates, based on the code outputted from the exclusive OR operator 409b, a phase of the oscillator signal (for example, 24 GHz) supplied from the local oscillator 111, and outputs the resulting modulation signal.
  • the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 412a is emitted as a detection radio wave via the band-pass filter 115, the attenuator 116, and the transmission antenna 117.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus 400a of the present embodiment directly modulates a carrier wave and the transmission PN code in the transmission unit 401a.
  • the signal obtained by the modulation is emitted as a detection radio wave via the transmission antenna 117 and the like.
  • the repetition code is despread in the balanced modulator 124.
  • an exclusive OR is calculated between the data supplied from a data source (bits) and the transmission PN code in the transmission side. Then, since the code obtained from the exclusive OR is modulated using the oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator, large numbers of spectrums caused by the bits appear in each of the frequencies of spectrum for the signal obtained by the modulation. With this, since spectrums become very large in number, the inter-modulation between the spectrums occurs due to the non-linearity caused by the balanced modulator 412a, the amplifier 413a, the low-noise amplifier 123, and the like.
  • the despread processing in the reception side deteriorates the correlation characteristic with the delaying PN code, and a ratio of noise to peak in output of the reception signal becomes lower.
  • such case is equivalent to a case where an object having high reflectivity properties is masked by an object having low reflectivity properties.
  • the object detection capability of the spread spectrum radar apparatus decreases.
  • the signal is less influenced by the inter-modulation.
  • the transmission circuit may generate an intermediate signal by modulating a phase of the second oscillator signal based on the first pseudo-noise code, and generate a spread signal by mixing the intermediate signal and the first oscillator signal.
  • the transmission circuit further includes: (b) a first local oscillator which generates the first oscillator signal; (c) a second local oscillator which generates the second oscillator signal; (d) a first balanced modulator which generates the intermediate signal by modulating a phase of the second oscillator signal based on the first pseudo-noise code; and (e) a second balanced modulator which generates the spread signal by mixing the intermediate signal and the first oscillator signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus may include a transmission unit 101a instead of the transmission unit 101.
  • the transmission unit 101a includes local oscillators 111a and 112a, and balanced modulator 113a and 114a instead of the local oscillator 111 and the balanced modulators 113 and 114.
  • the balanced modulator 113a modulates a phase of the reference signal (for example, 455 kHz) supplied from the local oscillator 112a based on the PN code supplied from the transmission PN code generating unit 103, and outputs the resulting modulation signal.
  • the balanced modulator 114a mixes (multiplies) an oscillator signal (for example, 24 GHz) supplied from the local oscillator 111a and the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 113a, and outputs the resulting signal. Then, the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 114a is emitted as a detection radio wave via the band-pass filter 115, the attenuator 116, the transmission antenna 117, and the like.
  • an oscillator signal for example, 24 GHz
  • the transmission circuit may generate an intermediate signal by modulating a phase of the first oscillator signal based on the first pseudo-noise code, and generate a spread signal by mixing the intermediate signal and the second oscillator signal.
  • the transmission circuit further includes: (a) a first local oscillator which generates the first oscillator signal; (b) a second local oscillator which generates the second oscillator signal; (c) a first balanced modulator which generates the intermediate signal by modulating a phase of the first oscillator signal based on the first pseudo-noise code; and (d) a second balanced modulator which generates the spread signal by mixing the intermediate signal and the second oscillator signal.
  • the spread spectrum radar apparatus may include a transmission unit 101b instead of the transmission unit 101.
  • the transmission unit 101b includes local oscillators 111b and 112b, and balanced modulators 113b and 114b instead of the local oscillators 111 and 112, and the balanced modulators 113 and 114.
  • the balanced modulator 113b modulates, based on the PN code outputted from the transmission PN code generating unit 103, a phase of the oscillator signal (for example, 24 GHz) supplied from the local oscillator 111b, and outputs the resulting modulation signal.
  • the balanced modulator 114b mixes (multiplies) a reference signal (for example, 455 kHz) supplied from the local oscillator 112b and the modulation signal outputted from the balanced modulator 113b, and outputs the resulting signal. Then, the signal outputted from the balanced modulator 114b is emitted as a detection radio wave via the band-pass filter 115, the attenuator 116, the transmission antenna 117, and the like.
  • the frequency of the oscillator signal supplied from the local oscillator 311 may vary according to the control signal supplied from the control unit 306a to the local oscillator 311, instead of the random signal generating unit 307.
  • the local oscillator 111 may supply an oscillator signal using a single-end signal and supply an oscillator signal using a differential signal.
  • the present invention can be used as a radar apparatus and the like which is inexpensive and provides high performance.

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